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Title: Answer to Job : (From Vol. 11, Collected Works) by C. G. Jung, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0-691-01785-9 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Profound and daring examination of the Christian God.
Comment: I have read this book twice in ten years and will probably read it again. I like this book because Jung is expressing his feelings whilst using his immense experience and accumulated knowledge. Although many references are made to other sources, I do not feel as if I need to know very much more than the average person brought up in a mild Christian society, to gain substantial benefit from the book. What seems intense to me is the underlying issues of how we (as humans) relate to our sense of reality and justice. For me, this is not so much an answer to Job as a comprehension of the inherent correctness of the dilemma that Job is faced with. I gave this book a rating of 4 on a scale of 5 because I still do not feel that I understand fully what Jung is saying. But I am not sure that he is sure either. It certainly elucidates, for me, the very real dynamics between the conscious and the subconscious. I gives me insight into the difference between children's immediacy which can be without sympathy for the effect of their actions on the outside world, and the same immediacy that adults can attain with complete responsibility for the effect of their actions. Immensely supportive book and an important aid to self improvement, which is our inherent right as human beings. Don't expect to get all the benefits of this book for months or even years after reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Answer to Job more aptly titled Answer to Freud
Comment: For me this book is a wonderful example of how Jung was able to work with archetypes and myths when dealing with his own relationships. One familiar with the letters between Freud and Jung will find in the description of Yahweh and Jung's complaints against this punishing, abandoning, and at times unself-aware image of God the very real feelings he experienced with Freud.
I believe Jung did in this book what he could not do in his real life experience with Freud. That is reconcile parts of the relationship that hurt him deeply while finding a way to understand the limitations of both Freud and the PsychoAnalytic community which he felt abandoned him after the break with Freud.
He did this by attributing to God the containment of all things of the paradoxial nature of being both light and darkness/ evil and good.
Rating: 2
Summary: Surprised at how poorly Jung understood God
Comment: Carl Jung is highly respected by psychologists, both private and religious. I read some works by Jung on dreams and people who claimed they saw flying saucers. These so much impressed me that I also formed a high opinion of Jung. I then read Jung's "Answer to Job" when I researched a book I wrote about "Revelation and the Fall of Judea." I had read commentaries by many authors to make sure I understood what others had said. "Answer to Job" touched on the same topic. What an eye opener! This man, so highly revered as an expert on human thinking, doesn't himself understand who God is and what God has done, even with Job.
Jung claims that God once was in a state of unconsciousness and was prodded by Lucifer, who was inclined to make use of God's omniscience, into acting unfairly with Job. Job proved himself morally superior to God. God then became the human being, Jesus Christ, so he could suffer the way Job was made to suffer. Jung's position surprised me because God was never in a state of unconsciousness. God is unchanging. Jung mentions Lucifer. I'm surprised that Jung didn't believe the biblical text that it was Lucifer who brought suffering onto Job. Lucifer did it to demonstrate before God that Job would blaspheme God if Job experienced misfortune. God gave Lucifer permission to harass Job but set limits on what Lucifer could do. Job actually proved himself morally superior to Lucifer because, even when suffering misfortune, Job would not rebel against God, whereas, Lucifer, without any suffering, rebelled through pride.
Job had three friends who tried to convince him that he offended God somehow, and that is why misfortune came. Their opinions were not true. Scripture has it that Lucifer brought misfortune to goad Job into rebellion. God permitted this because God had already informed Lucifer how faithful Job is. Now, under fire, Job's faithfulness is tried and proven. Spiritual growth came out of Job's suffering. That's why God permitted it. When the book of Job ends, God told Job to pray for his three friends because their untrue advice had offended God. I'm surprised Jung didn't pick up on that. God's asking Job to pray for his friends is one of the keys to understanding the book of Job.
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Title: Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No 54) by Edward F. Edinger, Lawrence W. Jaffe ISBN: 0919123554 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Jung on Evil by C. G. Jung, Murray Stein ISBN: 0691026173 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 08 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0440351839 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 1968 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Gustav Jung ISBN: 0156612062 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: August, 1955 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung ISBN: 0691018944 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 18 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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